When I said it was going to be a rough weekend at the box office, I'm not sure that I expected it would be this rough. Pretty much every new release completely bombed, and the top slot was won by the holdover The Expendables 2. However, don't think this is because that movie is doing so well….rather, everything else did so bad it won the weekend with a meager $13.5 million. The Bourne Legacy came in second and ParaNorman rounded out the top three.
The opening movie this weekend that performed best was JGL's Premium Rush, however, it made only $6.3 million. Even the very odd The Odd life of Timothy Green made more money. The horror movie The Apparition starring Ashley Green didn't even make the top 10. Rough weekend for all movies involved! Here's hoping Tom Hardy and friends can bring back some bucks with Lawless next weekend.
Box Office: August 27th
 | 1. The Expendables 2 $13.5 Million / $52.3m Total Domestic / $74.7m Total Worldwide There is some life in these "mature" action heroes yet. |
 | 2. The Bourne Legacy $9.3 Million / $85.5m Total Domestic / $113.6m Total Worldwide The new Bourne isn't exactly as great as the first three Bournes, but at least it's hanging in. |
 | 3. ParaNorman $8.4 Million / $28.3m Total Domestic / $35.9m Total Worldwide "Don't make me throw this hummus: It's spicy!" |
 | 4. The Campaign $7.4 Million / $64.5m Total Domestic / $66.6m Total Worldwide It's Ferrell and Galifianakis…what could go wrong?! |
 | 5. The Dark Knight Rises $7.2 Million / $422.2m Total Domestic / $941.2m Total Worldwide It's approaching the billion dollar mark worldwide, but with its big week to week drop-offs will it make it? |
 | 6. The Odd Life of Timothy Green $7.1 Million / $27m Total Domestic A kid who was grown in a garden was more interesting to audience than JGL on a bike. I don't know what to think about that... |
 | 7. Premium Rush $6.3 Million / New / $7.6m Total Worldwide And, apparently an action movie centered around a bike, is not as appealing as an action movie centered around a bus. Who knew. |
 | 8. 2016: Obama's America $6.2 Million / $9m Total Domestic Probably the biggest surprise of the weekend, is how well the conservative documentary that attempts to examine where the country will be in 2016 if Obama is in office for another four years. It is now the highest-grossing conservative documentary ever. |
 | 9. Hope Springs $6 Million / $45m Total Domestics The comedy about reinvigorating a marriage after years of being together stars Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell and is apparently quite funny. |
 | 10. Hit & Run $4.7 Million / $5.8m Total Domestic Well, at least it made the top 10. |
You know it's a slow weekend when Ashley Green's underwear can't take the top spot.
Hmm? I really expected a bigger opening for Premium Rush.
Total Recall not even in the top 10... looks like the movie bombed.
@NewfieBullet said:
No. It already made back it's budget. Maybe not as much of a hit as they were expecting, but it still offset the cost to make it.
i'm glad tdkr is still on here(5th no less) and hope it crosses the billion mark
@the_referee: The trailer for that movie made me laugh hysterically at how awful it looked. I like JGL as much as the next person but that movie looked horrible.
@HT101 said:
I was just expecting some real kick @ss bike stunts to take up the majority of the movie.
@Napalm: The budget does not include marketing or the cut the theatres get. A budget of 100 million needs to make at least 200 million for the movie to have made any of its money back.
@NewfieBullet said:
How do you know that budget wasn't already including most of those figures? I highly doubt the Wiki numbers listed are solely the money given [only to shoot the film]. I'm sure [studio execs and those in charge of budgeting films] do a write-up which included marketing, promotions, theatre estimates, etc.
@Napalm: Dude did you see the movie? Clearly was a high budget movie over 100 million, which doesn't include marketing or the cut the theatres get.